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The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka's Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife, Hana, in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana's condition worsens, Kaito's life becomes absorbed...

Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of the 1980s. But the Zillers' American dream is about to...

"It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World -- a world where big...

Sarah Stovell's gripping new novel, Every Happy Family is available now!Hilarious, unputdownable, suspenseful fiction, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and MotherlandThey all have opinions.They all have secrets.'Both funny and engaging while tackling some serious stuff' Jane Fallon'Deft, wry and perceptive, this drama targets...

Scotland, 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father, the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.Determined not to give up, the two older sisters...

When I first starting writing My Gangsta Child I was going to make it fictional, but friends and family read it, they suggested I should let it be known that this is based on a true story written with fictional characters.The life I was...

Married college professors Christine and Joss thought they had it all: jobs they love, a beloved daughter, and most of all, each other-that is, until Joss's research pulls her further and further away. Lonely and seeking the emotional connection she once shared with her...

A little girl wakes up on Newroz feeling sad. Living in the U.S., she begins to miss her old home. But as she helps her mom prepare food for the family gathering to celebrate the first day of spring, she encounters many small things...

Savor a breath of fresh salty air in this feel-good story about one woman's journey to believe she deserves happiness. Single mom Tess Gilmore has been moving so fast to keep her life together that she's hardly had time to notice how unhappy she...

Revenge. Perversity. Drugs. ...And the party hasn't even started yet! The blue-collar workers of LeisureFace Timeshare Condominiums just found out their jobs are on the chopping block due to a corporate takeover. Even worse, it's all being orchestrated by their greedy CEO, Cles Gubbins,...

"Just in time for the holidays, author Kristen McKanagh gifts readers with the latest heartwarming novel featuring lovable, irresistible, mischievous feline ball of fluff, Snowball. By now, the kitten we met in Snowball's Christmas is all grown up, greeting guests at her Victorian B&B...

Author: Amy E. ReichertISBN-10: 8885781209ISBN-13: 9798885781206Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2022Pages: 455Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.43w x 1.26dLarge Print

Author: Colleen FrenchISBN-10: 8885780938ISBN-13: 9798885780933Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2022Pages: 518Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.51w x 1.18dLarge Print

"Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and shes going to win, goddamnit. Not that thats her slogan, although it could be. Shes said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. Theres just one problem: her grown children....

To edit, or not to edit. That is the driving question in Christopher Lee's debut novel, Between the Shimmer & the Blinding. Sam and Clara face a literal life-altering decision: to edit or not to edit their unborn child's genes. While Sam struggles with...

Stories that will break your funny bone and keep you in stitches...and you won't have to go to the ER! Humor/satire about the dumb things that guys will sometimes do...you know, those decisions that usually start with a trip to the liquor store and...

Eve dared. . . Eve, with passion that overruled her total innocence, ran away from home to live in unrepentant sin; won stardom singing on the stage of the Parisian music halls before Worlds War I; married into the world of international diplomacy; and...

A sweeping southern women's fiction novel about forgiving the past one letter at a time--from the author of When Never Comes. A year ago, Dovie Larkin's life was shattered when her fianc committed suicide just weeks before their wedding. Now, plagued by guilt, she...

Jodi and Jill Spingold are the Spinster Sisters... With a radio show, speaking engagements, DVDs, and two bestselling books, they've built a thriving cottage industry helping other single women find happiness. Their futures have never been brighter-until Jill turns out the lights on Jodi...

The last thing Melanie expected to lose when she went on a diet was her husband. Former lawyer Melanie Hoffman lost half her body weight and opened a gourmet take-out caf specializing in healthy and delicious food. Then her husband left her--for a woman...

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a powerful novel set in Seattle in 1999, a city troubled by rioting anarchists, vanishing children, and the discovery of an al-Qaeda operative. "A tour de force." --The Washington Post Book World Jonathan Raban's powerful...

In Ebb, Nebraska, things are pretty much as they were fifty years ago-aside from that coffee shop-and that's just the way folks like it. Plucky Wilma Porter is the proprietress of Ebb's only Bed and Breakfast, and she knows everything there is to know...

A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times) "[Nick Laird's] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles...

Born the day of the great mining disaster at Jane Pit, Merry Trent's start in life is marked with tragedy. She is brought up by her only surviving relative, her feisty grandmother Peggy, living in poverty-stricken isolation in the deserted village near the old...

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Up at Butternut Lake comes the third novel in the Butternut Lake series--a dazzling story of two wounded souls seizing a second chance at life and love.On the run from her abusive...

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish, Maha Gargash's second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members--an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and a vulnerable niece--of a...

A place out of time, Ashaunt Point, Massachusetts, has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change.An unforgettable portrait of...

Two couples, best friends for half a lifetime, move in together. What could possibly go wrong?Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a...

Two couples, best friends for half a lifetime, move in together. What could possibly go wrong?Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a powerful story about fighting for a chance at happiness--whatever the cost.Charles Vincent seems to have it all--a beautiful wife, two successful children, and a well-paying career. Yet happiness remains out of reach. He is...

In this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, adult siblings find their way back home--and back to each other--after loss. Preston and Constance Whittier have built a happy life together, with a brood of six children raised in a...

A novel by an acclaimed American poet, House under Snow is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, and a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch.Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her childhood in Ohio...

If Mae loses the Inn, she'll lose everything.Mae Benson was born to run the Sweet Island Inn. She cooks, she cleans, she laughs, she makes a mean pot of coffee, and she always knows which beach to recommend to her guests. But suddenly, that...

A secret bundle in a dusty corner sends the Benson family reeling.It wasn't meant to be uncovered. But when her son Brent stumbles across something curious hidden in the workshop, innkeeper Mae Benson must relive events she thought she had left thirty years in...

When an editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change livesBook editor Emily Bryant finds herself unexpectedly in the charming town of Cascata on California's Lost Coast, holding the keys to her grandmother's rambling Victorian mansion. While sorting...

Combining the powerful scope of Homegoing with the mystical touch of The Immortalists, Daughters of the New Year is a captivating debut novel about five generations of Vietnamese mothers and daughters, drawing on Vietnamese zodiac astrology to chart the fateful events of their lives...

When Aisha's fisherman father goes missing, she takes to the sea on a skeleton boat to rescue him. Guided by a talking scholar's cat, who sparks her interest in the mysterious House of Rust, she encounters three monsters lurking beneath the waves. All Aisha...

From the next major voice in Southern fiction (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes a new novel about what it really means to tell the truth . . . After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn Lovey White knows that...

It's not every day that your father presents you with a tumbledown building and the funds to convert it into a hotel. It's not every day, either, that you learn his financial empire was built on theft.In this warm romantic story young entrepreneur Tom...

Pre-order the brand new instalment in the bestselling New York Ever After series from Helen Rolfe!Welcome back to the Inglenook Inn, a cosy and welcoming place that instantly feels like home.Rupert has been the chef at the Inglenook Inn for years. He loves working...

Pre-order the brand new instalment in the bestselling New York Ever After series from Helen Rolfe!Welcome back to the Inglenook Inn, a cosy and welcoming place that instantly feels like home.Rupert has been the chef at the Inglenook Inn for years. He loves working...

**THE TODAY SHOW READ WITH JENNA DECEMBER 2023 PICK** Inspired by a little-known piece of history--the underground group that kept an archive to ensure that the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II were not lost to history--this is...

Erica Thomas and Claire Mason are very much in love. They have a new home, a boisterous three-year-old and with Christmas coming, it's going to be a joyous time of year. But Claire wants more than that. Claire wants to invite their parents over,...

Mike McCormack's new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.About Notes from a Coma JJ O' Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds...

Pu Bergman is eight years old when Mother rents Pastor Dahlberg's ramshackle house for the summer. Pu is a Sunday's child--one said to be endowed with special gifts of sensitivity, clairvoyance, and the ability to see ghosts.As the novel opens, Pu's heart is full...

Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one...

Based on the author's discoveries about her great-grandfather, this stunning debut novel that "powerfully portrays the inner struggles of ordinary people moved to do extraordinary things" (Booklist) takes place over three days during World War II when members of a German family must make...

The life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from the author of Lost for Words 'A delightful and original concept about how a second hand bookshop can heal a community' Katie Fforde 'What a lovely book - so assured and gentle, full of compassion and replete...

A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When...

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky shares a cautionary tale of romance, revenge, family relationships and power in this powerful novel. Nothing can prepare writer Hillary Cox for seeing her lover of 27 years, mining magnate John St. George, announce on television that...